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rsupremo

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Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 13

VirtualBox host only adapter has no ipv4 address

output of:

ip addr

5: vboxnet0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::800:27ff:fe00:0/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Virtual box setting:

Why don't I see vboxnet0 with ip address 192.168.56.1 ?

c0mm0ner

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Registered: 2015-11-09

Posts: 93

Re: VirtualBox host only adapter has no ipv4 address

Can you add the IP manually?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: VirtualBox host only adapter has no ipv4 address

You still have to run dhcpcd on the guest.  VirtualBox implements a DHCP server.  The address you show in your GUI is the address of the gateway intrinsic to VirtualBox.

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c0mm0ner

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Registered: 2015-11-09

Posts: 93

Re: VirtualBox host only adapter has no ipv4 address

From the ipv6, that we are seeing the ip addr output of the host machine. I think the device should have the ipv4 from the dialog assigned as well.